Bold as Love

by Gwyneth Jones

Book Overview

"It's Dissolution Summer. As the United Kingdom prepares to break up into three nations (Northern Ireland already someone else's problem), the Counterculturals have gathered, in Hyde Park, at Glastonbury, and notably in the meadows by the river at Reading, for a festival where everything's allowed. Among them is a talented little brat called Fiorinda, rock and roll princess by birth, searching for her father, the legendary Rufus O'Niall." "Instead,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1473230195
• ISBN13: 9781473230194
• Release Date: January 2022
• Publisher: Gateway
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.0" x 7.7"

Customer Reviews

Super Reader

This is another of those 'how the h*ll did she think of this books'? On the face of it, you might think it would be either a) ludicrous, or b) inordinately soppy. It ain't either. I don't know how Jones did it, but she did. Even escapes nicking Hendrix' titles. In a little bit in the future England, things are falling apart. So much so that the musical counterculture again has political clout, and so much so that a rockstar of the violent bent stages a coup. That does not end well, and this brings to the fore the classic Arthurian trio of Arthur, Guinevere, and Lancelot. Or, in this case, Ax Preston (got to have a guitar player, right?), Fiorinda Slater, and Sage Pender. With a severe energy crisis looming, and a fractured country and war with the muslims coming, and the standard government completely useless these three must try and use their musical and other talents to get everyone through. With the decline of most technology, the rise of just that bit of mystical power is coming.